Ali MacGraw

Ali was educated in Wellesley College, where she was a student of art history. After graduating, she worked in fashion magazines. She became a model due to her fascination with fashion photography. This was a career she continued until 1968 when, due to Steve McQueen's wedding, she started a film career late. Her films have been mostly very popular or failed. Today the former actress lives at home in New Mexico in a modest kind of way. on the surprise success of Love Story (1970), her second leading role If you're not a fan of the media, as I was, you can't imagine the feeling you get when you're surrounded by the great approval machine shining its beam on you, when every time you cross the street, someone is able to come through a male's hole to talk about your haircut. The lessons I've learned since then are that the survival of stardom depends on being able to figure your identity in order to not define your self by the things people say about the person you are. It's impossible to know how you'll confront such a quagmire. This is not the end.